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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. - Festus (sc. Alcove and Garden) [Love] Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them. - Festus (sc. Another a a Better World) [Poets] Imagination is the air of mind. - Festus (sc. Another and a Better World) [Imagination] The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy. - Festus (sc. Another and a Better World) [Dew] The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. - Festus (sc. Anywhere) [Fraud] My favoured temple is in an humble heart. - Festus (sc. Colonnade and Lawn) [Heart] Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. - Festus (sc. Elsewhere) [Prayer] What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? - Festus (sc. Everywhere) [Stars] Could I love less, I should be happier now. - Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea) [Love] Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless. - Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea) [Night] Surely the stars are images of love. - Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea) [Stars] Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes. - Festus (sc. Hades) [Blessings] Hell is more bearable than nothingness. - Festus (sc. Heaven) [Hell] The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields Of heaven. - Festus (sc. Heaven) [Stars] The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. - Festus (sc. Heaven) [Sun] Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin. - Festus (sc. Hell, l. 194) [Hell] A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. - Festus (sc. Home) [Poets] Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. - Festus (sc. Home) [Sorrow] Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind. - Festus (sc. Home) [Kindness] Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air. - Festus (sc. Home) [Greatness] Every believer is God's miracle. - Festus (sc. Home) [Miracles] For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. - Festus (sc. Home) [Nightingales] Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet. - Festus (sc. Home) [Thought] Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. - Festus (sc. Home) [Kindness] Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. - Festus (sc. Home) [Humility] Displaying page 6 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7
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